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I am attempting to create a Debian package of an application that includes a Java .jar file and some .so library files. This application comes from someone else; I am just converting it into a Debian ...

I need to have a script that will install a package from source in a Linux system and need to know how to take care of the errors that usually come up as a result of the first step ./configure maybe a ...

During a puppet run, ia32-libs was installed, this seems to have caused several packages to be uninstalled but I'm not sure why.. Can anyone shine any light on the matter?
Here's the apt log entry:
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I'm trying to build a customized version of a nginx package for Debian/Ubuntu which had a different set of modules opposed to the default version.
What would be the fastest way to modify the debian/ ...

I'm PXE booting a linux distro that I'd like to contain a list of packages. I have these packages listed in a kickstart file for inclusion. Some of these packages won't work with the current distro, ...

I am using a Debian repo (based on reprepro) for Wheezy and custom packages. I modify my custom packages from time to time and test them manually on different systems, e.g.:
Test a) Installation of ...

Our code base is using PHP 5.5 and we are wanting to deploy on AWS Opsworks however when selecting the PHP App Server layer we are told it has PHP 5.3.
What I was hoping is that I could just use the ...

When installing mysql-server on Debian Wheezy, the user "mysql" is created without a home directory. In my setup, directly after MySQL was installed, a new task is performed which relies on the mysql ...

I've created a slackware build script so I could build a specific package and then install it on a couple of servers running identical versions. I'm aware you could use doinst.sh to do things after ...

Like in Ubuntu we have the option of creating "Ubuntu update cache server" which downloads and update packages directly from internet and serves other client ubuntu machines for installing/updating ...

I want to make two things:
First of all, I want to have my own repository of ubuntu in my servers to not overload the usage of Internet in my company and to control the updates. I think that I have ...

I have installed Salt-master in my ubuntu 12.04 machine and salt minion in ubuntu 12.04. I want to install package containing like svn,mongodb,postgres,maven,python in the salt-minion. how to create ...

I have this issue and I would like to understand why it is like this.
I have build 3 really simple rpm packages called a, b and c, and I made a independant, b depending on a and c depending on a and ...

I was searching a lot on the internet and couldn't find an exact answer.
There are distros like Gentoo (or FreeBSD) which does not come with binaries but only with source code for packages (ports).
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I have two web servers, a production web server and a backup web server.
After running a rpm -qa on the two servers, I noticed some package discrepancies.
It seems like, someone ran a yum update at ...

Just ordered a new Debian server and for some reason can not install
php5-suhosin and php5-apc. Any ideas?
apt-get install php5-suhosin
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading ...

I'm working my way through the Learning Puppet guide on manifests, and I am stuck on the exercise at the bottom of the page which asks you to install the httpd package and start the httpd service.
So ...

In trying to get ODBC PDO working with Microsoft's MSSQL driver on Debian I've found that I need to apply patches to the PHP extension (see https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=50444 for those patches).
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I have an Ubuntu 8.04 server and I wanted to install rdiff-backup
I have done:
apt-get install rdiff-backup
But when I launched it return me a lot of error.
i have seen in internet that the problem ...